Psychedelic Salon Podcast - Terence McKenna Q & A...

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Psychedelic Salon Podcast - Terence McKenna Q & A from his Eros and Eschaton Speech

Q: Why don’t some people get high when they take psychedelics?

A: “The way to do psychedelics is, I believe, at higher doses than most people are comfortable with and rarely, and with great attention to set and setting.”

“But these boundary-dissolving hallucinogens that give you a sense of unity with your fellow man and nature are somehow forbidden. This is an outrage. It’s a sign of cultural immaturity, and the fact that we tolerate it is a sign that we are living in a society as oppressed as any society in the past. We are caged by our cultural programing, and this is the most powerful imprisoning factor in our lives. If we could train ourselves to simply remember our dreams, psychedelics would become obsolete.”

“Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it is worth. Language is partially the key here. We cannot move into a reality we cannot describe. If we can’t describe a world, we can’t be there. As long as we let the establishment set the language agenda we will be imprisoned in the tiny, rather pedestrian, world of consumerism and schloko values that the establishment has prepared for us. The way I think of these psychedelics are a different way, is that they are catalysts for the imagination.” - Terence McKenna

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